Beware of Buying "OEM" cards brought from abroad from clickBD or any other source

First of all I apologize for the long thread title but I couldn't find shorter terms to describe the matter better, as the title states; please avoid buying used goods that comes with descriptions like "brought from abroad, used in original DELL/HP/Whatever brand name PCs" as these cards are mostly refurbished, I once bumped into a shop in Elephant road where I at first thought that I had hit the jackpot when I saw all these GPUz priced insanely low and are in "mint" condition but after getting screwed by these refurbished junks twice I finally decided not to buy anymore of these garbages, and I advice the members of ClickBD not to buy any cards that comes with a similar description/source, and if you still wish to buy them, do it at your own risk.

Also sometimes the reason why precompiled PCs by HP, DELL etc is cheap is because they use refurbished components. Which is why you should stay away from these things if you can build your own PC. If you are buying it for someone else, go through the pain of compiling it or else later on you will be the one dealing with the warranty.

Mahn I thought I knew about GPUz till I saw these guys in Elephant Road! Half, if not all, GPUz they "import" from abroad are defective and these guys are actually capable of bringing totally dead GPUz back to life (note, without any soldering, unless they got those infra red oven that is capable of reflowing perfectly which is highly unlikely) and boy these guys can put up an act that they dunno that the GPUz are repaired and will last starting from 1 hour to 6 months.

Nah some are genuine cases, the ones with the brandings "came from HP/Dell PCs" and surprisingly has OEM bios/tags and serial stickers on them are the ones to avoid.

some may be genuine but it is very rare i guess. more than 99% cases either they are 'out of warranty' product which are bought from bd or simply faulty/refurbished. so if someone really need to buy those i think it is better to make sure that the seller has proper invoice no matter from where it was bought....